The New York premiere of Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney, the next Blue Light Theatre production, will now officially open on April 8. The show was originally due to open April 1. The schedule was pushed back, however, when cast member Gabriel Macht got word that he'd been cast in a Steven Spielberg project and had to leave for work March 27, according to a production spokesman.

l-r: Lynn Hawley, Alex Draper
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The New York premiere of Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney, the next Blue Light Theatre production, will now officially open on April 8. The show was originally due to open April 1. The schedule was pushed back, however, when cast member Gabriel Macht got word that he'd been cast in a Steven Spielberg project and had to leave for work March 27, according to a production spokesman.

Macht has been replaced by Alex Kilgore, who joined the cast the last weekend in March.

The Blue Light production began previews March 19 at the downtown theatre space HERE. Rob Bundy directs a cast including Alex Draper, Lynn Hawley, Brandt Johnson and Gabriel Macht. The ubiquitous George Xenos will provide the sets. Pitchfork will play through April 23.

Best known for the screenplay of the 1990 hit movie "The Krays," which he also directed, Ridley has written numerous novels for adults and for children, as well as a few other plays. His The Fastest Clock in the Universe was produced by the New Group Off Broadway last year.

The Pitchfork Disney depicts eerily antisocial twins, 28-year-olds who subsist on chocolate and sleeping pills while sequestering themselves in their London flat. When they open their door to a larger than-life cabaret performer and his grotesquely disfigured assistant, their fear of the outside world does, in fact, come to fruition. Pitchfork Disney gets its title from the two cabaret entertainers, who are improbably named Cosmo Disney and Pitchfork Cavalier. The play had its U.S. premiere in 1995 at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre, after premiering at London's Bush Theatre in 1991.